Trichiurus lepturus

englantiBody extremely elongate, compressed and tapering to a point. Mouth large with a dermal process at the tip of each jaw. Dorsal fin relatively high; anal fin reduced to minute spinules usually embedded in the skin or slightly breaking through; anterior margin of pectoral fin spine not serrated. Pelvic and caudal fins absent. Lateral line beginning at the upper margin of the gill cover, running oblique to behind the tip of the pectoral fins, then straight close to the ventral contour. Fresh specimens steely blue with silvery reflections, becoming uniformly silvery gray sometime after death (Ref. 6181).

• Trichiurus japanicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
• Clupea haumela Forsskål, 1775
• Trichiurus malabaricus Day, 1865
• Trichiurus argenteus Shaw, 1803
• Trichiurus coxii Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887
• Trichiuris haumela (Forsskål, 1775)
• Trichyurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trachiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trichiurus nitens Garman, 1899
• Trichiurus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
• Trichiurus lajor Bleeker, 1854
• Trichiurus haumela (Forsskål, 1775)
• Trichurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
• Trichiurus lepturus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844